关于安慰剂效应的研究

安慰剂效应是指由安慰剂所引起的可观察的行为.本文讨论了安慰剂效应的确切定义,安慰剂效应的强度差异,以及临床背景、患者的人格特质、安慰剂的特征和医患关系等因素对安慰剂效应的影响.目前研究者普遍认为安慰剂效应通过期待和条件作用产生.近期的一个研究热点是疼痛和帕金森氏症背景下期待引起的安慰剂效应的神经机制.     

视觉归纳概括的加工机制与策略

给22名被试呈现若干组在外形与纹路上变化的电池图片,要求指出何种类型的电池有电.结果发现,被试会快速觉察电池的共享特征并概括出一般性的结论.如若电池间无共享特征,被试则需较长时间才给出"无法概括"的反应.共享纹路时,被试在"共享-无干扰"条件下的反应明显快于 "共享- 有干扰"条件下的反应,体现出假设形成与验证的过程.共享特征为外形的反应时短于共享特征为纹路的反应时 ,这说明被试在任务中采用的是整体优先的加工策略.     

单纯呈现效应与积极情感的产生

该研究以汉语双字词为刺激材料 ,以大学生为被试,首先分别检验了标准的情感启动范式和单纯呈现范式的有效性.然后,用在标准的单纯重复呈现范式中产生了典型单纯呈现效应的中性刺激,替换标准情感启动范式中情感属性为积极的启动刺激,再次进行标准的情感启动测验,仍然观察到了情感启动效应,而同样是这些中性刺激,当没有被重复呈现时,在标准的情感启动测验中没有观察到情感启动效应.结果表明,刺激的重复呈现会导致偏好的产生,使其能够起到积极情感刺激的作用.研究认为,刺激的重复呈现,可能是积极情感产生的一个来源.     

北京市流动儿童自尊的发展特点及其与学业行为、师生关系的相关研究

以北京市1018名流动儿童和319名城市儿童为被试,用问卷法,考察北京市流动儿童自尊的发展特点,并探讨学业行为、师生关系对流动儿童自尊的影响.结果表明:(1)流动儿童的自尊发展水平存在显著的年级差异;(2)流动儿童的自尊发展水平显著低于城市儿童,两者在高分组(＞41)和低分组(＜28)所占比例分别为39.8%、60.2%和92.7%、7.3%,差异显著;(3)流动儿童的自尊发展水平存在显著的校际差异,混合公立学校流动儿童的自尊发展水平显著高于打工子弟学校的流动儿童;(4)流动儿童的自尊与学业行为、师生关系的各维度均有显著相关,学业行为中的学习效能感、学习自信心和师生关系中的低冲突性、支持性、关系满意度可以显著预测流动儿童的自尊发展水平.     

高中生攻击性结构对应对方式的影响

采取内隐联结测验(IAT),测得100名高中生的内隐攻击性,同时结合问卷对其外显攻击性和应对方式进行调查.结果显示:(1)内隐和外显攻击性对消极应对方式均有显著预测效应,但两者与积极应对方式无显著关系;(2)内隐攻击和外显攻击的交互项对应对方式的影响不显著.     

关于社会主义科技荣辱观的若干思考

随着科学技术的发展及其日益社会化,人们的思维方式、价值观念发生了变化,一些有违科技荣辱观的问题日益凸显。它们不仅败坏学术风气,损害我国科技界声誉,而且阻碍我国科学技术的进步,影响我国科教兴国战略的实施。因此,在当前建设社会主义核心价值体系、弘扬社会主义荣辱观的形势下和过程中,加强社会主义科技荣辱观的研究和建设,既十分紧迫,又非常重要。     

中学教师的工作满意度状况及其相关因素

采用"明尼苏达满意度问卷(MSQ)",对北京地区有代表性的5所中学557名教师的工作满意度状况进行了调查,结果表明,中学教师对工作总体上是满意的;人口统计学变量中的年龄、学历、职称、职务等在工作满意度具有显著的差异,但是性别因素的差异不大.     

Neural and genetic foundations of face recognition and prosopagnosia

Faces are of essential importance for human social life. They provide valuable information about the identity, expression, gaze, health, and age of a person. Recent face‐processing models assume highly interconnected neural structures between different temporal, occipital, and frontal brain areas with several feedback loops. A selective deficit in the visual learning and recognition of faces is known as prosopagnosia, which can be found both in acquired and congenital form. Recently, a hereditary sub‐type of congenital prosopagnosia with a very high prevalence rate of 2.5% has been identified. Recent research results show that hereditary prosopagnosia is a clearly circumscribed face‐processing deficit with a characteristic set of clinical symptoms. Comparing face processing of people of prosopagnosia with that of controls can help to develop a more conclusive and integrated model of face processing. Here, we provide a summary of the current state of face processing research. We also describe the different types of prosopagnosia and present the set of typical symptoms found in the hereditary type. Finally, we will discuss the implications for future face recognition research.     

Action Research: A Missing Component in the Emergence of Social and Cross‐Cultural Psychology as a Fully Inter‐Connected Global Enterprise

Action research, as envisaged by Lewin, uses research to solve a social problem and provide theoretical knowledge. It involves a cyclical–spiral of planning, action, and evaluation with feedback between parties, taking into account power and value differences and empowering change agents. This has been all but abandoned by social psychologists today. Contemporary ‘participatory’ action research has migrated to fields like education and development and community studies that emphasize a social constructionist epistemology with a qualitative approach of recording bottom‐up processes of social change and community self‐awareness. The globalization of psychology affords new opportunities for a return to more top‐down Lewinian traditions, where academics in the developing world – embedded within a cultural milieu of interconnectedness and relatively exempt from pressures to publish or perish – can work together with academics in wealthy countries to produce a process oriented psychology that is capable of making a difference under conditions of climate change and the end of cheap oil. Asian social psychology, where strongly indigenous psychologies have taken root in growing economies, may take a leading role in this movement.     

Long‐term immigrant adaptation: Eight‐year follow‐up study among immigrants from Russia and Estonia living in Finland

This study was a longitudinal investigation of the three different dimensions of long‐term immigrant adaptation (i.e., psychological, sociocultural, and socioeconomic adaptation) and the relationships between them in an 8‐year follow‐up with panel data. The 282 respondents were immigrants in Finland, born between 1961 and 1976, coming from the former Soviet Union. The results suggest that the adaptation of these immigrants has developed favourably. In 8 years, the respondents had improved their Finnish language skills and their position in the labour market. No differences were observed in their levels of psychological well‐being between the two assessments. Of the three adaptation dimensions assessed, sociocultural adaptation, measured as proficiency in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Finnish, turned out to be the most significant predictor of the two other long‐term outcomes of immigrant adaptation (i.e., socioeconomic and psychological). In particular, the better the initial command of the Finnish language, the better were their socioeconomic and psychological adaptation outcomes after 8 years of residence. These results demonstrate the importance of parallel and longitudinal assessments of the different outcomes of immigrant adaptation in order to address which particular dimensions of adaptation are most critical in the beginning of acculturation in terms of determining positive development and long‐term immigrant adaptation.